Inherit Chicago is a citywide intercultural festival of art, ideas, and performance that celebrates our past and embraces our collective future. It is the first and only intercultural festival that highlights the rich diversity across our city's neighborhoods and promotes cultural and community understanding among young and old. Inherit Chicago is a festival for neighborhoods, by 30 neighborhood heritage museums and cultural centers, all members of the Chicago Cultural Alliance.

This inaugural, month-long festival will debut October 1-29, 2017 with an opening celebration, World Dumpling Fest, that will then bridge to Chicago's neighborhoods for 22 intercultural programs and events at the city's cultural centers and heritage museums. Inherit Chicago events will connect heritage to today, bond communities through collaboration, and engage audiences to personally experience the cultural vibrancy of Chicago's neighborhoods.